From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16065 invoked by alias); 11 Jun 2008 17:11:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 16057 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Jun 2008 17:11:34 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from bluesmobile.specifix.com (HELO bluesmobile.specifix.com) (216.129.118.140) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:11:17 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (bluesmobile.specifix.com [216.129.118.140]) by bluesmobile.specifix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5ACA3C593; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:11:15 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: GDB record patch 0.1.3.1 for GDB-6.8 release From: Michael Snyder To: teawater Cc: Pedro Alves , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Thiago Jung Bauermann In-Reply-To: References: <200805231746.23570.pedro@codesourcery.com> <200806090152.00220.pedro@codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:03:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1213204275.3601.605.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 (2.10.3-7.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-06/txt/msg00225.txt.bz2 On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 15:45 +0800, teawater wrote: > Hi Pedro, > > > Don't worry, it's really more about code reorganization, than > > rewriting. :-) > > > > You have two major components in your patch. > > > > 1 - The record/replay component > > 2 - The inferior control in reverse execution mode. > > > > I'm suggesting to split those up, and make them communicate > > with an abstracted interface (target methods). In addition, > > make the record support a layer on top of the > > forward-execution-only debugging targets (of course, defering > > much to the arch support). > > > Michael Snyder is think about it too. He make a rev interface in > before. I will try to use it. Hui, I've created a new branch in which I've hoisted my old reverse-debugging changes into the current codebase. It compiles, but I haven't had a chance to test it yet to see if it actually works in reverse. You might like to take a look at it, to get an idea of the direction we were most recently headed -- maybe diff it against the base to look at the changes. Branch name: msnyder-reverse-20080609-branch